Pavel Gubarev

Pavel Gubarev (10 February 1983-) was the People's Governor of the Donetsk People's Republic from 3 March 2014 to 2 November 2014. He was a separatist commander during the Ukrainian Civil War.

Biography
Pavel Gubarev was born on 10 February 1983 in Sievierodonetsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (present-day Ukraine). He became a member of the Ukrainian Progressive Socialist Party, formerly a member of the neo-Nazi Russian National Unity paramilitary group. Gubarev himself was a pan-Slavist and was a radical nationalist, and he was a pro-Russian activist. On 1 March 2014 pro-Russian activists in the Lenin Square of Donetsk elected him as the People's Governor of the newly-declared Donetsk People's Republic, but on 6 March 2014 he was arrested by the SBU, but on 7 May he was exchanged for Donbass People's Militia-detained SBU officers. In October 2014 he suffered a head injury when he was shot at while driving his car, and on 2 November 2014 he left office as the People's Governor after his party did not hold a founding conference.